Original Word: ἔμπορος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: emporos
Phonetic Spelling: (em'-por-os)
Short Definition: a merchant, trader
Definition: a merchant, trader; one on a journey.

1713 émporos (from 1722 /en, "in" and poros, "a way of passage") – a merchant using a particular venue to trade.

STRONGS NT 1713: ἔμπορος

ἔμπορος (see ἐν, III. 3), ἐμπόρου, ὁ (πόρος);

1. equivalent to ὁ ἐπ' ἀλλοτρίας νεώς πλέων μισθοῦ, ὁ ἐπιβάτης; so Hesychius, with whom agree Phavorinus and the Schol. ad Aristophanes, Plutarch, 521; and so the word is used by Homer.

2. after Homer one on a journey, whether by sea or by land, especially for traffic; hence,

3. a merchant (opposed to κάπηλος a retailer, petty tradesman): Revelation 18:3, 11, 15, 23; ἄνθρωπος ἔμπορος (see ἄνθρωπος, 4 a.), Matthew 13:45 (WH text omits ἄνθρωπος). (the Sept. for סֹחֵד and רֹכֵל.)

merchant.

From en and the base of poreuomai; a (wholesale) tradesman -- merchant.

see GREEK en

see GREEK poreuomai

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